Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Here we're going again. We get right running back.
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Speaker 4: David Vasselas.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk. David vasse with you until the
Speaker 2: top of the hour after the Orioles survive the Dodgers
Speaker 2: by a final score of three to two. We have
Speaker 2: phone lines open at eight six, six, nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Jose Moto will join us in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: We'll get his thoughts on why Trevor Rodgers was able
Speaker 2: to shut down the Dodger offense for six innings tonight.
Speaker 2: You heard Dave Roberts talk about how Rogers attack the
Speaker 2: Dodgers with the fastball.
Speaker 3: Well, the Dodgers are one of the.
Speaker 2: Best fastball hitting teams in baseball, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: they just couldn't pick it up tonight because Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: was the only Dodger that had a hit off of
Speaker 2: Trevor Rodgers tonight. Trevor Rodgers took a no hitter into
Speaker 2: the fifth inning until Tommy Edmond singled with two outs
Speaker 2: in that inning. So interesting night that the Dodger offense
Speaker 2: couldn't get it going against Trevor Rodgers. But nonetheless, it
Speaker 2: says a lot about the Dodgers that even with all
Speaker 2: that being said in the ninth inning, they could have
Speaker 2: very easily just folded the tents and walked away quietly. Tonight, instead,
Speaker 2: led by Shoho Tani's home run, they weren't going to
Speaker 2: go away quietly. They showed the Orioles what it's like
Speaker 2: to play the back to back World Series champions, a
Speaker 2: team that is still pushing forward, coming into tonight with
Speaker 2: the best record in baseball. The Dodgers got to Ryan
Speaker 2: Helsley last night. He blew his first save of the
Speaker 2: year last night. Tonight they ran Andrew Kittridge out of
Speaker 2: the ninth inning. The Dodgers were hitting a lot of
Speaker 2: balls hard, including Andy Pajez his rocket to left center
Speaker 2: field that Taylor Ward made an incredible catch on. Or
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are sending this game at the very least
Speaker 2: to extra innings, if not winning it in the bottom
Speaker 2: of the ninth innings.
Speaker 3: So that was a huge play.
Speaker 2: As it turned out in the ninth inning after Sho
Speaker 2: Haotani sparked the rally with his sixteenth home run of
Speaker 2: the year, a home run that was a rocket to
Speaker 2: the right field pavilions. And I have said this and
Speaker 2: I will say it again, Jo Haotani is the greatest
Speaker 2: player on the planet.
Speaker 3: And the Dodgers have a lot of great players on their.
Speaker 2: Team, but there is something about his presence that makes
Speaker 2: those guys believe that they are invincible, that they can
Speaker 2: overcome any deficit, no matter how many outs they have
Speaker 2: left in a game, if they can just get that
Speaker 2: guy up. And to me, he gave them confidence again
Speaker 2: in that ninth inning that, okay, I'm not giving away
Speaker 2: at bats. You better not give away at bats. And
Speaker 2: that's exactly what took place in that ninth inning. Also,
Speaker 2: some bad Orioles defense in the ninth inning. You can't
Speaker 2: tell me a few of those guys didn't realize where
Speaker 2: they were at Dodger Stadium with fifty thousand fans bearing
Speaker 2: down on them. In the home of the back to
Speaker 2: back World Series champions because Kobe Mayo on that routine
Speaker 2: chopper by Mookie Betts. Nine out of ten third basemen
Speaker 2: make that play and MOOKI was hustling up the first baseline,
Speaker 2: and I thought it was really cool as that extended
Speaker 2: review challenge was happening in New York, that the fifty
Speaker 2: thousand fans here at Dodgers Stadium in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: were chanting.
Speaker 3: Safe, Safe, Safe.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's that World Cup fever in LA that sparked
Speaker 2: that type of chance, but certainly cool atmosphere at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium and Tommy Edman hitting a rocket to right field
Speaker 2: that Leote Taveres couldn't come up with. I mean it
Speaker 2: was in his glove, it was out of his glove.
Speaker 2: He was handcuffed, and he kind of felt like tom
Speaker 2: Yedman was going to do something good in that at bat,
Speaker 2: and he certainly did to keep the line moving, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were one runaway from tying the game, Mookie
Speaker 2: ninety feet away. And I guess that's where you know,
Speaker 2: we sometimes talk about the good, the bad, the ugly, Well,
Speaker 2: the ugliest part of the game tonight was Kyle Tucker's
Speaker 2: last at bat. I mean even Alex Freeland had a
Speaker 2: better at bat than Kyle Tucker did in the ninth
Speaker 2: inning against Cano. I mean that was atrocious. He was
Speaker 2: over fortnite with three strikeouts. And it's becoming harder and
Speaker 2: harder to ignore that Tucker is hitting two thirty eight.
Speaker 2: Has severely underperformed in his first few months as a Dodger.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's fair or unfair, but
Speaker 2: the fans in the stairwell are talking about sixty million
Speaker 2: dollars to this guy. And that's what you sign up
Speaker 2: for when you sign a contract like that. If you
Speaker 2: don't want the smoke, don't sign a contract like that
Speaker 2: on a team that is trying to three peat because
Speaker 2: the expectations are higher than ever.
Speaker 3: And like I.
Speaker 2: Said on the last road trip, there is no snapping
Speaker 2: of the fingers that I believe is going to happen
Speaker 2: between now and the All Star Break for Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: I don't see Kyle Tucker turning his season around until.
Speaker 3: After the All Star Break. That's just a fact.
Speaker 2: I have seen a lot of guys come through Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium with a lot of expectations with a lot of
Speaker 2: contract on their books, and when you see something like this,
Speaker 2: it doesn't just snap out of it overnight. I don't
Speaker 2: see this changing until the second half of the season.
Speaker 2: Am I ready to bury Kyle Tucker as a Dodger.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. Am I going to compare him to Michael Conforto,
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. But what I will say the parallels between
Speaker 2: Tucker and Conforto are and Confordo admitted this to Ken
Speaker 2: Rosenthal a few weeks back, is that he looks around
Speaker 2: the room and he's trying to compete with the Otani's,
Speaker 2: the Freeman's, the ta Oscars. And I really hope Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker is not trying to do that, because that would
Speaker 2: be a repeat of a mistake of a guy like
Speaker 2: Michael Conforto, who signed a one year contract for seventeen
Speaker 2: million dollars and it never it never turned out the
Speaker 2: right way for him for the Dodgers in his short
Speaker 2: time with them. So look, Kyle Tucker can go under
Speaker 2: the radar all he's want, all he wants. He's hardly
Speaker 2: ever at his locker when the media is in there.
Speaker 2: He hardly does any interviews. And look, he's a guy
Speaker 2: that wants to go under the radar doesn't say a lot,
Speaker 2: but the reality is people are noticing. It's hard not
Speaker 2: to notice. Eight six six eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go out to Lou, who
Speaker 2: was at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Speaker 3: Hi, Lou, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey, David, thanks for taking the call. He took all
Speaker 5: my thunder because everything I was thinking about saying about
Speaker 5: Tucker he said, it looks like he's just it's too
Speaker 5: big for him. David, and Scott Boris didn't do him
Speaker 5: any favors by giving him that sixty million dollars contract.
Speaker 2: Scott Boris is not why Why does everybody blame Scott Boris?
Speaker 3: Scott Boris is a care about how much?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: Whoever gave him the contract? It's too big for him.
Speaker 5: I don't think he can handle the big lights here
Speaker 5: in LA. I don't know. It just seems like you
Speaker 5: tell me you were there that lasted bad? Did it
Speaker 5: look competitive to you?
Speaker 3: I've seen better cuts under a band aid. I'll put
Speaker 3: it that way.
Speaker 5: There you go, And look, I'm not trying to beat
Speaker 5: on him when he's down. But I don't know. I
Speaker 5: just don't see. I don't you know, he's got a two.
Speaker 5: He can opt out after two years, and it's four
Speaker 5: year contract. It wouldn't surprise me if he gets out
Speaker 5: of LA after two years, it.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't surprise me either. But I will say this, I'm
Speaker 2: not ready to just bury Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3: Yet.
Speaker 2: It looks ugly. It hasn't looked good at all. He's
Speaker 2: had a couple of moments, but that's it. He hasn't
Speaker 2: been able to put together week ten games, fifteen games.
Speaker 2: But Louis, you say all this and then he comes
Speaker 2: up with a big hit in October and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, it's a moot point. So that's why I
Speaker 2: would be very careful to be able to say this
Speaker 2: is too big for him until it's not.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I saw Strawberry here and it was
Speaker 2: a completely different situation. I get that, but at the
Speaker 2: time it was the biggest contract in baseball. He only
Speaker 2: hit five home runs the first half of ninety one,
Speaker 2: and then hit twenty three home runs in the second
Speaker 2: half after he kind of got his bearings. And I
Speaker 2: think we should give Tucker that grace period as well,
Speaker 2: especially since his teammates have picked him up in the
Speaker 2: first half of the year, so I'm expecting a much
Speaker 2: better second half from Tucker.
Speaker 5: All right, maybe you're right, but I'm gonna go on
Speaker 5: record Andrew Friedman's made a lot of great moves, but
Speaker 5: this may go down as the worst free agent signing
Speaker 5: he's ever done.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, Lou I don't think
Speaker 2: you could say that just yet. Eight six six seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Westlake.
Speaker 3: David. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, David.
Speaker 1: I'm doing okay, DV.
Speaker 6: Thanks for taking my call. Man, I gotta.
Speaker 7: Agree with you. I love this team so much. And man,
Speaker 7: the way they show fight. They're nine games up in
Speaker 7: first place and bade you not quit until the very end.
Speaker 7: But but Kyle Tucker, Man, that guy swing is so ugly.
Speaker 6: But I have a solution.
Speaker 7: I think tomorrow morning he needs to wake up and
Speaker 7: feel a little inflammation in his left big toe, and
Speaker 7: he needs to go.
Speaker 6: On the IL. He needs to go on to al
Speaker 6: We need to bring up Kibs. See what that kid
Speaker 6: can do. And and mister Tucker needs to stand in
Speaker 6: the corner of the dugout and face the wall and
Speaker 6: go on a little time out because that guy, he
Speaker 6: needs a little break from baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if that break is coming out, trust me,
Speaker 2: that break is coming at the All Stark And that's
Speaker 2: when I believe he'll reset his season and figure things out,
Speaker 2: because in the middle of the year, when you're trying
Speaker 2: to change, you know different things.
Speaker 3: And Nomar, I.
Speaker 2: Think you've heard what I played, what Nomar said, and
Speaker 2: diagnosed with Tucker just his stride. I talked to Aaron Bates,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers hitting coach, and he said, that's what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are working on with Tucker, but it's not an
Speaker 2: overnight fix. And those pitches that he was swinging at
Speaker 2: in the bottom in the dirt, I mean, like I said,
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland had a better at bat in the ninth
Speaker 2: inning than Kyle Tucker, which you know is saying something there.
Speaker 3: All right, David, let's talk it after the All Star break.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, one last thing, DV about Alex Freeland.
Speaker 6: I don't understand. I don't understand how you pinch hit
Speaker 6: for a guy who hit the.
Speaker 7: Game tying home run in game seven of the World
Speaker 7: Series for Alex Freeland.
Speaker 6: I don't understand.
Speaker 7: I think that's Dodgers manager Dave Roberts overthinking again.
Speaker 6: I think that's analytics coming too much into play.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you're going with the platoon.
Speaker 2: Rojas is one of the best right handed hitters against lefties,
Speaker 2: and he wanted to get Freeland in there against the
Speaker 2: righty from the left side.
Speaker 3: So that was the thinking right there.
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't mind the loss, taking that at beat
Speaker 2: at at that at bad either. Who can argue that.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, David, appreciate it. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Michael and Northridge. You're on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 2: are you doing, Michael?
Speaker 7: Hi, David, I'm doing great.
Speaker 8: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm great? How can it be bad?
Speaker 2: The Dodgers lost for the first time on this homestand
Speaker 2: they got the second best record in baseball?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I know, what's what's going through your mind right now?
Speaker 9: What I saw? I know what's going through your mind
Speaker 9: right now?
Speaker 3: What's going through my mind?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 4: Like that?
Speaker 6: You know, we got the best working in baseball and
Speaker 6: then we lost his home standy, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Okay, thank you for the phone call. Have a
Speaker 2: great rest of your Saturday night. Man, if that guy
Speaker 2: was in my head, I'd be in real trouble. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. I mean, what am I supposed to do
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Speaker 2: Dodger's fault to the Orioles tonight three to two. When
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with ho.
Speaker 2: All right, Hose, let's talk about Trevor Rodgers. I know
Speaker 2: the ninth inning was exciting and the Dodgers never gave
Speaker 2: up on that game, But how did Trevor Rodgers pitch
Speaker 2: six shutout innings and allow just one hit to Tommy Yedman.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna say that, Dave, he's been paying attention to
Speaker 9: what's happened to the Dodgers. Anthony k faced him back
Speaker 9: in Chicago, and then Sean Neukleman company came in. Then
Speaker 9: you know, well, venable changes planned, so they're just not
Speaker 9: being able to get into good cons against lefties. And
Speaker 9: execute well covering the outer half. I mean Lefty's lab
Speaker 9: with the outer half, you got to protect. Even if
Speaker 9: he comes to be up the fastballs, he's setting something
Speaker 9: up for you and they just has not been able
Speaker 9: to adjust to making better contact. And beyond the point,
Speaker 9: not an excuse, but with l will Smith and Telska
Speaker 9: is a different looking min of what comes out to
Speaker 9: facing lefties, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that ride that Miguel Rojas gave. It
Speaker 2: could have been a two run home run that Rojas
Speaker 2: sent to the track back in the seventh inning, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know we're in the sixth inning. Even even Rogers
Speaker 2: was a little concerned there.
Speaker 9: He was, you know what, going back to the previous caller,
Speaker 9: I have to live and die with mcguer rosas and
Speaker 9: that a bat though day, I have to go with
Speaker 9: mcguar Rojas. Alex Freeland is not a proven big league
Speaker 9: player yet. He is not a proven power hitter yet.
Speaker 9: If he becomes one, and I know that in that
Speaker 9: bad Wright left the Ottle Carol Hardy throws, I have
Speaker 9: to go to mcgair house and let me just put
Speaker 9: it to you this way. If that's the playoff situation,
Speaker 9: he's going to hit there, it's gonna be Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 9: So whatever was going today's head is fine. But and
Speaker 9: I don't only going left to righty matchup. Great analytics, great,
Speaker 9: cyur metrics, great, But in that case, in that game
Speaker 9: out there, after his left at bat, I'm going to
Speaker 9: mcguar Rojas. But there's no doubt that, you know, Migie
Speaker 9: knows what he's doing. He actually gave the most detailed
Speaker 9: report he was talking about with the Aaron Bates at
Speaker 9: one point to one of his hitters coming up on
Speaker 9: the guy coming in. And that's why you want to
Speaker 9: I like that on your team because he's ready all
Speaker 9: the time, and certainly I want to see one sea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you, And I wonder if Dave
Speaker 2: was after last night and the way things went down,
Speaker 2: if it was Dave trying to allow another growing moment
Speaker 2: the big picture, you know, as the Dodgers are trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, not only win tonight's game, he's trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, develop some of these guys as well as
Speaker 2: far as the big picture, And I wonder if that
Speaker 2: went into his decision to have Freeland come off the bench.
Speaker 2: But how do you argue Miguel Rojas, who came up
Speaker 2: with arguably the biggest home run in the last twenty
Speaker 2: five years for the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly. I know the Dodgers to take the approach
Speaker 9: a lot of times, as you know why Freedlom made
Speaker 9: the team, and it was pretty obvious with Dodgers that
Speaker 9: we need to see what we have. So, yeah, have
Speaker 9: a good point. You there are a lot you know
Speaker 9: exactly how the thinking goes along and the season progresses,
Speaker 9: the ever flows of the season, and perhaps that would
Speaker 9: be in a moment to say, hey, we trust you
Speaker 9: to do this out there and give your best at
Speaker 9: better and he actually, you know, they're a pretty job
Speaker 9: of just making contact going the other way and trying
Speaker 9: to hit a long dround the other way.
Speaker 2: He actually had a better at bad than Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: That's been a topic of conversation tonight, Jose.
Speaker 9: It has been. I mean, you know what, on every
Speaker 9: point you made, you've been exactly right. And at some
Speaker 9: point Dave Yenier Canoe is not going to give in
Speaker 9: with his fastball. He's not losing that game with a fastball.
Speaker 9: It's easy for me to say it from where I
Speaker 9: stand where I sit right now. But Kyle Tucker has
Speaker 9: to understand a little bit more about and he's done
Speaker 9: it before in his career. It's not like this is
Speaker 9: anything new for him. That canoe is not going to
Speaker 9: throw anything close. And the more he expands with that
Speaker 9: swing that he has he's trying to find the right
Speaker 9: path forward, the more he's going to go out there
Speaker 9: and just bury balls out of his own Obviously, this
Speaker 9: is not on Kyle Tucker, is not why they lost,
Speaker 9: but that at bat right there you have to force
Speaker 9: Cana who is not even their closer, to put your
Speaker 9: way with something in the zone, not out of the zone.
Speaker 9: So hopefully is a learning moment, as he talked about Freeland,
Speaker 9: a learning moment for a veteranmploye that he needs to understand
Speaker 9: a little bit more about the situations are going to
Speaker 9: continue to find him. Because at some point, as the
Speaker 9: Susans progressing, just took me how many of these moments
Speaker 9: are finding him early and laying the games and with
Speaker 9: the big monster he's got around him, guess what other
Speaker 9: teams are gonna say, get to that guy until the
Speaker 9: next on Injustice, we want that guy in the batsac
Speaker 9: left you're ready, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't seem like he had much of a
Speaker 2: plan in that at bad Jose and h You know,
Speaker 2: for a guy that has a reputation of being extra selective,
Speaker 2: nobody has seemed to solve the question, including Tucker himself.
Speaker 2: Why is he swinging so early and often in at
Speaker 2: bats more than he ever has in his career.
Speaker 9: He has to get better with this. I actually went
Speaker 9: down to a little, you know, deeper dive into this
Speaker 9: and as of last before this homestand Dave, when he
Speaker 9: had made contact on the first pitch on inside pitches,
Speaker 9: he was one for eleven. Okay, it was a blue
Speaker 9: base hit. When Sara Basemon says, so I understand the
Speaker 9: need to say, I got some guys around me, I'm
Speaker 9: going to go out there and be aggressive. But it's
Speaker 9: got to be aggressive to your point, to your pitch
Speaker 9: and your location. And also he's talked about, you know,
Speaker 9: fixing the swing paths, as he told the reporters just
Speaker 9: a couple of days ago. That's all great, but with him,
Speaker 9: it really comes down to pitch selection, which is which
Speaker 9: trich do I feel good with at times even taking
Speaker 9: a two strike approach with no strikes because the situation
Speaker 9: your calls for contact or just a roller or a
Speaker 9: gramvel or longer up the middle and just slowing the
Speaker 9: game down a little bit more. He's good enough and
Speaker 9: he's experienced enough to know that I've done this before,
Speaker 9: and I don't need to be in a hurry. It
Speaker 9: seems sometimes seems like he's in a hurry, and I
Speaker 9: can see happening that you go out there and you
Speaker 9: want to make early contact and find something good to
Speaker 9: hit and you smack it. But that's not been the case.
Speaker 9: There's been a lot of soft contact, easy outs, early incounts,
Speaker 9: and hopefully that will change you because the league is
Speaker 9: going to just spread around a little bit more that
Speaker 9: you don't need to throw them anything closed when he's
Speaker 9: aggressive like that, and he can work counts and be back.
Speaker 9: But surely adjustmente seem to be made for him, just
Speaker 9: make his life easier and make it more enjoyable for himself.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you hitting on all the points we've been
Speaker 2: talking about on the show. We'll see you out here
Speaker 2: tomorrow as the Dodgers look to have a happy flight
Speaker 2: to Minnesota.
Speaker 9: I know what's in your head, Dave. Yeah, right, well,
Speaker 9: I sandwich. I know, I know it's in your head.
Speaker 9: I've got in your head right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you. That's a scary place to be, trust me.
Speaker 2: There he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish
Speaker 2: radio broadcast. Hey, you know what's in my head? I
Speaker 2: got a Blake Snell update for you. I've been talking
Speaker 2: to Blake Snell for a lot of years, but more
Speaker 2: specifically during this rehab process. After getting the nanoscope to
Speaker 2: remove loose bodies in his left elbow, Blake Snell today
Speaker 2: threw off the mound for the first time since that
Speaker 2: nanoscope procedure on May nineteenth. He threw ten pitches off
Speaker 2: the mound today. He said that he has never felt
Speaker 2: better his range of motion. He can't believe the drastic
Speaker 2: difference that he didn't realize completely he has now from
Speaker 2: before the procedure doctor elatrosh performed on him. He said
Speaker 2: the ball was coming out of his hand really well
Speaker 2: today and he's gonna throw a bullpen session at the
Speaker 2: end of next week. So things are really looking good
Speaker 2: for Blake Snell. And like I said a couple of times,
Speaker 2: the last few days. Do not count this guy out
Speaker 2: from starting a game before the All Star break July.
Speaker 3: Right, Dave Roberts said July.
Speaker 2: I would not count Blake Snell out from starting a
Speaker 2: game before the All Star breaks sometime in July.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Also, speaking of Dave Roberts, we had a great time
Speaker 2: earlier today at Downy Hunday.
Speaker 3: It was a party.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts got to experience the experience at Downey Hunday.
Speaker 2: Thanks to all the fans that came out to show
Speaker 2: Dave some love. You can see the photos the videos
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Speaker 2: and certainly thank you to Sam and everybody else at
Speaker 2: Downy Hunday who hosted us. Tomorrow, the Dodgers will wrap
Speaker 2: up this homestand against the Orioles in the Al East
Speaker 2: with Emitt Shehan on the mound. He's three and four
Speaker 2: with an ERA of four seventy six, looking to put
Speaker 2: together a complete start, something he's only done once this year.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow would be a nice day to do it against
Speaker 2: the Orioles. Brandon Young Young is five and two with
Speaker 2: an ERA of three point eighteen. Our coverage begins at
Speaker 2: noon first Pitch at one ten with Rick Monday and
Speaker 2: Tim Neverett on Father's Day. Thanks to Colin me back
Speaker 2: at our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening. In
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Speaker 2: The final score tonight the Dodgers falls short against the
Speaker 2: Orioles three to two.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your night. See you